5 Ways Props Can Enhance Your Yoga Practice
Whether a beginner or an advanced yogi, yoga props can enhance your practice and give it a whole new meaning and essence altogether.
So, which are the common Yoga Props?
Yoga Block: Yoga Blocks are amazing tools that help you bring your body closer to the floor
Yoga Mats Not only do yoga mats protect you from injury, they also help in keeping your body warm. Vegan suede yoga mats are advisable as they provide grip as well as comfort.
Yoga Strap: The key to long lengthy stretches, and allows you to deepen the pose.
Yoga Bolster: Take your Savasana to a whole different level with this comfortable prop.
Why do we use Yoga Props?
Neither are the props limited, nor the benefits of using them. Some of the best reasons to use a Yoga Prop are:
To build a great practice, you need a high quality yoga mat which will give you a solid foundation, like the Studio mats or Big Bear mats. Bamboo Yoga Blocks provide the extra support needed to have correct alignment, form and allow for comfort in the pose.
Yoga Mats and Blocks deepen our postures so that we can go further in an asana. They even help us with our stiffness, lessen the risk of injuries and soreness by taking off any additional pressure on our joints.
5 Ways Props Can Enhance Your Yoga Practice
1. To create greater stability and to find more opening and length in the side body, place a block under your bottom hand in standing Half-Moon Pose.
2. During Savasana, to cultivate heaviness and warmth, cover your torso with a folded blanket, and for a more gentle position for the low back, place a bolster under your knees.
3. To find greater lift and length in the spine, use blocks under your hands in Low Lunge.
4. To start your practice, lie over a bolster with your arms draping onto the floor for a gentle chest opener.
5. To find more release in the hamstrings and the upper body, instead of craning your shoulders and neck to reach your toes; loop a strap around the ball of your foot in Reclining Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose.
If you’re looking to access greater strength, freedom, and mobility across all types of yoga poses, you’ve got to incorporate a variety of props. And the next time someone asks how props can enhance your yoga practice – now you know. :)
